Before reading this post read   Paula C. Durbin-Westby's recent blog post on media framing of autism stories and the real harm this is ...

Last week two of the most beloved and significant people in my life were victims of a violent crime. Their home was violated. It was a vicio...

Trigger warning for discussion of child murder. Please call your emergency services or local crisis support number if you need immediate and...

I asked Ryan if I could write a blog post about him and as long as he didn't have to write anything himself he was happy enough. So I...

It's World Autism Awareness Day and autism is all over the papers and radio. Some of the stories are great such as this by Fiona O'L...

You mean well. I know you hope that by persuading your local council to bathe your town or city's most significant building or monument ...

I didn't expect that the promoters of uncontrolled and unethical experimentation on autistic children would be allowed to sell their ser...

[Warning-  in this post, written in support of the This is Autism flash blog, I've quoted some of the dehumanising language used by Suz...

This is my millennium baby. He didn't develop along quite the same path as his older sister and most of his peers and was diagnosed with...

There's a new quackery promoter in town and he sent me the following email a few days ago. My thoughts are in red: ...

I posted on Facebook about the photos of Nigella Lawson having her neck squeezed by Charles Saatchi and called him a typical abusive creep f...

Quick post to share a link to the online version of Belfast Telegraph article about Ryan and me .

There was an article about Ryan (aka Duncan) and me in yesterday's Belfast Telegraph. It's based on a piece I sent in to promote the...

Today is World Autism Awareness Day and marks the start of Autism Acceptance Month . Awareness is a useless, nebulous concept. Only acc...

They've never heard of the social mode of disability down at the Vatican. This is a breathtakingly backwards view of autism. Archbishop...

Soaring autism; I envision loads of autistic children running down a grassy slope, arms outstretched, pretending to be aeroplanes. A few who...